Re: master daea9b3 1/2: Read mailcaps again only when necessary

[Stefan Monnier]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-11-01 19:48:16] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> What higher level?  I'm talking about two separate packages that don't
>> know each other, so there's no higher level magic that will save us.
> That's true, and we could add a "namespace" parameter -- but...
> If we really want to overengineer this, we'd make a file-cache object
> that stores both the file name, the file metadata, and the cached data.
> Well, come to think of it, perhaps that'd be nice as an interface?

That's pretty close to my suggestion to pass the hash-table as a second
arg, yes.


        Stefan